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- adjective Not having been
greeted ;unwelcomed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She would have passed me ungreeted had I not confronted her way.
Chapter 17 2010
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Before I could recover my sight, the lady of my love had disappearedirreparably affronted at what she chose to consider my premeditated rudeness in passing her by ungreeted.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Murray, meanwhile, has been conspicuously ungreeted by my grandparents during all of the helloing, being only gruntingly acknowledged.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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The Boy preferred to come and go like that, ungreeted and unquestioned, and the Tenor of course humoured this harmless peculiarity with the rest.
The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand
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She would have passed me ungreeted, had I not confronted her way.
Chapter 17 1915
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Five sultry days had I spent wandering unnoticed, ungreeted, and disdained, an alien in a hostile land, tolerated but unwelcome.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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She reached her flat rock and sank upon its moss ungreeted.
The Highgrader William MacLeod Raine 1912
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She would have passed me ungreeted had I not confronted her way.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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What could possibly be the meaning of the unwonted spectacle of the most powerful of living men, pale, terrified, dishevelled, ungreeted and ungreeting, unattended even by a single slave, running at full speed, though with his knees trembling under him, and often stumbling on the road?
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Richard followed the heralds at a foot's pace, alone, ungreeted by any.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
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